server questions

[Yu Meng Chong]

----- "Bruce Marshall" <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:

> I'm running an Atom box (1.80Ghz,  4GB quad cpu)   as an email, spam,
> and 
> firewall server and main server to my internet connection.   Haven't
> seen any 
> problems with it at all, and I know that Spamassassin takes quite a
> bit of 
> cycles.   Before that I ran  an Atom  1.6Ghz, 2GB,  dual cpu and the 
> performance as a server was the same.  Both boxes have a small cpu
> fan.

How many users are on your Atom server, and is it one of those small 
form-factor type casings, a mini-ITX board or a rackmount chassis? I 
love the mini-ITX casings, but the real reason I am looking at Atom 
and Zacate is because I need something that does not generate too much
heat and can be kept in a closet with no air-conditioning. Sounds 
crazy huh?

> 
> BTW, I use shorewall as a firewall and it is pretty easy to make it do
> what I 
> want and therefore,  I haven't bothered to dig into iptables all that
> much.

Shorewall is really cool, but I think Andrew was comparing with 
pfSense(?) on FreeBSD. I have seen that software only once and the 
features are just too sophisticated for me. All I need from a firewall
is: block everything except HTTP/HTTPS/SMTP/POP3/IMAP, and port 
forwarding.

regards,
pascal chong